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Arcane Afterlife
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Est deck cost: $2478.63
Salt sum: 66.07
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Commander

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Cecily, Haunted Mage

Your maximum hand size is eleven. Whenever Cecily, Haunted Mage attacks, you draw a card and you lose 1 life. Then if you have eleven or more cards in your hand, you may cast an instant or sorcery spell from your hand without paying its mana cost. Friends forever (You can have two commanders if both have friends forever.)

Creature
Cecily, Haunted Mage (slx) 3
Othelm, Sigardian Outcast

{2}, {T}: Choose target creature card in your graveyard that was put there from the battlefield this turn. Return it to the battlefield tapped. Friends forever (You can have two commanders if both have friends forever.)

Creature
Othelm, Sigardian Outcast (slx) 6

Commander

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Land

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Arid Mesa

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Mountain or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Arid Mesa (spg) 109
Badlands

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.)

Land
Badlands (olgc) 2016NA
Bayou

({T}: Add {B} or {G}.)

Land
Bayou (olgc) 2019A
Blood Crypt

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Blood Crypt (unf) 279
Bloodstained Mire

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Swamp or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Bloodstained Mire (mh3) 352
Breeding Pool

({T}: Add {G} or {U}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Breeding Pool (unf) 286
City of Brass

Whenever this land becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to you. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
City of Brass (2x2) 403
Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land
Command Tower (sld) 1496
Flooded Strand

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Plains or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Flooded Strand (mh3) 353
Godless Shrine

({T}: Add {W} or {B}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Godless Shrine (rvr) 277
Hallowed Fountain

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Hallowed Fountain (rvr) 295
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (dsk) 273
Ketria Triome

({T}: Add {G}, {U}, or {R}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Ketria Triome (iko) 310
Mana Confluence

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Mana Confluence (jou) 163
Marsh Flats

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Plains or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Marsh Flats (mh2) 248
Misty Rainforest

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Misty Rainforest (mh2) 250
Overgrown Tomb

({T}: Add {B} or {G}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Overgrown Tomb (rvr) 283
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (dsk) 272
Plateau

({T}: Add {R} or {W}.)

Land
Plateau (olgc) 2018A
Polluted Delta

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Polluted Delta (mh3) 356
Sacred Foundry

({T}: Add {R} or {W}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Sacred Foundry (rvr) 297
Savannah

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.)

Land
Savannah (olgc) 2017NA
Scalding Tarn

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for an Island or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Scalding Tarn (spg) 112
Scrubland

({T}: Add {W} or {B}.)

Land
Scrubland (olgc) 2018
Steam Vents

({T}: Add {U} or {R}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Steam Vents (unf) 283
Stomping Ground

({T}: Add {R} or {G}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Stomping Ground (rvr) 299
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (dsk) 274
Taiga

({T}: Add {R} or {G}.)

Land
Taiga (olgc) 2017EU
Temple Garden

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Temple Garden (rvr) 300
Tropical Island

({T}: Add {G} or {U}.)

Land
Tropical Island (olgc) 2019
Tundra

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)

Land
Tundra (olgc) 2015
Underground Sea

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.)

Land
Underground Sea (olgc) 2016EU
Verdant Catacombs

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Swamp or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Verdant Catacombs (spg) 113
Volcanic Island

({T}: Add {U} or {R}.)

Land
Volcanic Island (olgc) 2023A
Watery Grave

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Watery Grave (clu) 283
Windswept Heath

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Windswept Heath (mh3) 360
Wooded Foothills

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Mountain or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Wooded Foothills (mh3) 361

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Recursion

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Ancient Brass Dragon

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, roll a d20. When you do, put any number of target creature cards with total mana value X or less from graveyards onto the battlefield under your control, where X is the result.

Creature
Ancient Brass Dragon (clb) 367
Crucible of Worlds

You may play lands from your graveyard.

Artifact
Crucible of Worlds (2x2) 303
Eerie Ultimatum

Return any number of permanent cards with different names from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Eerie Ultimatum (plst) IKO-184
Mnemonic Deluge

Exile target instant or sorcery card from a graveyard. Copy that card three times. You may cast the copies without paying their mana costs. Exile Mnemonic Deluge.

Sorcery
Mnemonic Deluge (cmr) 82
Muldrotha, the Gravetide

During each of your turns, you may play a land and cast a permanent spell of each permanent type from your graveyard. (If a card has multiple permanent types, choose one as you play it.)

Creature
Muldrotha, the Gravetide (fdn) 430
Sheoldred, Whispering One

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, that player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Creature
Sheoldred, Whispering One (mul) 16

Recursion

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Copy

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Benthic Anomaly

Devoid (This card has no color.) When you cast this spell, for each opponent, choose a creature that player controls. Create a token that's a copy of one of those creatures, except its power is equal to the total power of those creatures, its toughness is equal to the total toughness of those creatures, and it's a colorless Eldrazi creature.

Creature
Benthic Anomaly (m3c) 46
Isshin, Two Heavens as One

If a creature attacking causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

Creature
Isshin, Two Heavens as One (neo) 224
Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant

Whenever you cast an artifact, instant, or sorcery spell, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy. This ability triggers only once each turn. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.) Whenever an opponent casts an artifact, instant, or sorcery spell, counter that spell. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature
Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant (neo) 371
Sakashima of a Thousand Faces

You may have Sakashima enter as a copy of another creature you control, except it has Sakashima's other abilities. The "legend rule" doesn't apply to permanents you control. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Creature
Sakashima of a Thousand Faces (cmr) 89

Copy

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Looting

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Cathartic Reunion

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard two cards. Draw three cards.

Sorcery
Cathartic Reunion (ss3) 2
Fact or Fiction

Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Instant
Fact or Fiction (sld) 333
Faithless Looting

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Flashback {2}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Faithless Looting (sld) 1779
Frantic Search

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.

Instant
Frantic Search (sld) 228
Merfolk Looter

{T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Creature
Merfolk Looter (7ed) 89★
Thrill of Possibility

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Draw two cards.

Instant
Thrill of Possibility (sta) 46
Tolarian Winds

Discard all the cards in your hand, then draw that many cards.

Instant
Tolarian Winds (7ed) 105★
Windfall

Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

Sorcery
Windfall (otc) 123

Looting

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Removal

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Hellkite Tyrant

Flying, trample Whenever Hellkite Tyrant deals combat damage to a player, gain control of all artifacts that player controls. At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control twenty or more artifacts, you win the game.

Creature
Hellkite Tyrant (rvr) 428
In Garruk's Wake

Destroy all creatures you don't control and all planeswalkers you don't control.

Sorcery
In Garruk's Wake (clb) 759
Response

Instant
Response // Resurgence (grn) 229
Ruinous Ultimatum

Destroy all nonland permanents your opponents control.

Sorcery
Ruinous Ultimatum (spg) 108

Removal

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Counters

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Ancient Bronze Dragon

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, roll a d20. When you do, put X +1/+1 counters on each of up to two target creatures, where X is the result.

Creature
Ancient Bronze Dragon (clb) 369

Counters

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Mill

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Breach the Multiverse

Each player mills ten cards. For each player, choose a creature or planeswalker card in that player's graveyard. Put those cards onto the battlefield under your control. Then each creature you control becomes a Phyrexian in addition to its other types.

Sorcery
Breach the Multiverse (mom) 94

Mill

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Theft

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Fevered Suspicion

Each opponent exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card. You may cast any number of spells from among those nonland cards without paying their mana costs. Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Sorcery
Fevered Suspicion (afc) 47

Theft

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Draw

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Ancient Silver Dragon

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, roll a d20. Draw cards equal to the result. You have no maximum hand size for the rest of the game.

Creature
Ancient Silver Dragon (clb) 366
Atraxa, Grand Unifier

Flying, vigilance, deathtouch, lifelink When Atraxa enters, reveal the top ten cards of your library. For each card type, you may put a card of that type from among the revealed cards into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. (Artifact, battle, creature, enchantment, instant, land, planeswalker, and sorcery are card types.)

Creature
Atraxa, Grand Unifier (one) 196
Blood for the Blood God!

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature that died this turn. Discard your hand, then draw eight cards. Blood for the Blood God! deals 8 damage to each opponent. Exile Blood for the Blood God!

Instant
Blood for the Blood God! (40k) 108
Brilliant Ultimatum

Exile the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. You may play lands and cast spells from one of those piles. If you cast a spell this way, you cast it without paying its mana cost.

Sorcery
Brilliant Ultimatum (ala) 159
Conflux

Search your library for a white card, a blue card, a black card, a red card, and a green card. Reveal those cards, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Conflux (a25) 202
Esper Sentinel

Whenever an opponent casts their first noncreature spell each turn, draw a card unless that player pays {X}, where X is this creature's power.

Creature Artifact
Esper Sentinel (mh2) 12
Etali, Primal Conqueror

Creature
Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness (mom) 137Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness (mom) 137
Genesis Ultimatum

Look at the top five cards of your library. Put any number of permanent cards from among them onto the battlefield and the rest into your hand. Exile Genesis Ultimatum.

Sorcery
Genesis Ultimatum (iko) 189
Inspired Ultimatum

Target player gains 5 life, Inspired Ultimatum deals 5 damage to any target, then you draw five cards.

Sorcery
Inspired Ultimatum (iko) 191
Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur

Flash At the beginning of your end step, draw seven cards. Each opponent's maximum hand size is reduced by seven.

Creature
Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur (plst) NPH-37
Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.

Enchantment
Rhystic Study (j22) 114
The One Ring

Indestructible When The One Ring enters, if you cast it, you gain protection from everything until your next turn. At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life for each burden counter on The One Ring. {T}: Put a burden counter on The One Ring, then draw a card for each burden counter on The One Ring.

Artifact
The One Ring (ltr) 246

Draw

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Protection

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Avacyn, Angel of Hope

Flying, vigilance, indestructible Other permanents you control have indestructible.

Creature
Avacyn, Angel of Hope (cmm) 14
Flawless Maneuver

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn.

Instant
Flawless Maneuver (cmm) 692

Protection

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Tokens

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Ancient Gold Dragon

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, roll a d20. You create a number of 1/1 blue Faerie Dragon creature tokens with flying equal to the result.

Creature
Ancient Gold Dragon (clb) 365

Tokens

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Finisher

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Nexus of Fate

Take an extra turn after this one. If Nexus of Fate would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, reveal Nexus of Fate and shuffle it into its owner's library instead.

Instant
Nexus of Fate (plst) M19-306

Finisher

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Ramp

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Ancient Copper Dragon

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, roll a d20. You create a number of Treasure tokens equal to the result.

Creature
Ancient Copper Dragon (clb) 368
Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact
Arcane Signet (sld) 1924
Avacyn's Pilgrim

{T}: Add {W}.

Creature
Avacyn's Pilgrim (f12) 8
Birds of Paradise

Flying {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature
Birds of Paradise (blc) 81
Elvish Mystic

{T}: Add {G}.

Creature
Elvish Mystic (sld) 805
Emergent Ultimatum

Search your library for up to three monocolored cards with different names and exile them. An opponent chooses one of those cards. Shuffle that card into your library. You may cast the other cards without paying their mana costs. Exile Emergent Ultimatum.

Sorcery
Emergent Ultimatum (iko) 185
Ignoble Hierarch

Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) {T}: Add {B}, {R}, or {G}.

Creature
Ignoble Hierarch (sld) 906
Llanowar Elves

{T}: Add {G}.

Creature
Llanowar Elves (fdn) 439
Noble Hierarch

Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) {T}: Add {G}, {W}, or {U}.

Creature
Noble Hierarch (2xm) 352
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (sld) 1494
Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger

Trample Whenever you tap a land for mana, add one mana of any type that land produced. Whenever an opponent taps a land for mana, that land doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Creature
Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger (sld) 1623
Zirda, the Dawnwaker

Companion — Each permanent card in your starting deck has an activated ability. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for {3} as a sorcery.) Abilities you activate that aren't mana abilities cost {2} less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana. {1}, {T}: Target creature can't block this turn.

Creature
Zirda, the Dawnwaker (mul) 65

Ramp

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Untap

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Aphetto Alchemist

{T}: Untap target artifact or creature. Morph {U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

Creature
Aphetto Alchemist (ons) 64
Elmar, Ulvenwald Informant

Haste Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, untap target creature, then investigate. (Create a colorless Clue artifact token with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.") Friends forever (You can have two commanders if both have friends forever.)

Creature
Elmar, Ulvenwald Informant (slx) 4
Freed from the Real

Enchant creature {U}: Tap enchanted creature. {U}: Untap enchanted creature.

Enchantment
Freed from the Real (a25) 58
Kiora's Follower

{T}: Untap another target permanent.

Creature
Kiora's Follower (pbng) 150
Magewright's Stone

{1}, {T}: Untap target creature that has an activated ability with {T} in its cost.

Artifact
Magewright's Stone (dis) 162
Pemmin's Aura

Enchant creature {U}: Untap enchanted creature. {U}: Enchanted creature gains flying until end of turn. {U}: Enchanted creature gains shroud until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) {1}: Enchanted creature gets +1/-1 or -1/+1 until end of turn.

Enchantment
Pemmin's Aura (scg) 45
Seedborn Muse

Untap all permanents you control during each other player's untap step.

Creature
Seedborn Muse (cc1) 4
Thousand-Year Elixir

You may activate abilities of creatures you control as though those creatures had haste. {1}, {T}: Untap target creature.

Artifact
Thousand-Year Elixir (plst) LRW-263

Untap

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Deck Info

Deck stats

25 pips - 14 cards
17 mana - 17 cards
38 pips - 25 cards
17 mana - 17 cards
25 pips - 15 cards
16 mana - 16 cards
27 pips - 17 cards
16 mana - 16 cards
25 pips - 18 cards
19 mana - 19 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
2 mana - 1 card
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